On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:48:15AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Ruby's GC is "conservative" so that they are protected as long as they
> live.   So you don't have to worry about local variable protection.

I've heard this same response before, but I'm not sure quite what you
mean.  How does the GC know how long the object "lives"?

Paul